Malevolent (2018)

Posted on November 26, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard Reply

Director: Olaf de Fleur
Writer: Ben Ketai, Eva Konstantopoulos
Main Cast: Florence Pugh, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Celia Imrie

‘I just want a quiet house’

A brother and sister con team, with a dark past, pretend to rid homes of unwanted spirits using the sister Angela’s faked ‘gift’. As Angela begins to wonder whether there may be more to her pretence than even she originally believed, the team receive a call to a haunting with a gruesome and tragic backstory, which proves to be far more than they bargained for.

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Friend Request (2016)

Posted on October 29, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard Reply

Director: Simon Verhoeven
Writers: Matthew Ballen, Philip Koch, Simon Verhoeven
Main Cast: Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley, Connor Paolo

‘I just want to be best friends. Forever’

Laura accepts a friend request on Facebook from a strange girl – Marina – in her Psych class at college, but soon finds her new friend is far too intense. When Laura tries to get some distance, Marina kills herself…but that is not enough to break the bonds of friendship.

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Harper’s Island (2009)

Posted on October 1, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard Reply

Creator: Ari Schlossberg
Main Cast: Elaine Cassidy, Christopher Gorham, Katie Cassidy

‘Mayday, mayday – this is Harper’s Island requesting immediate assistance’

Seven years after John Wakefield murdered six people on Harper’s Island, including her mother, Abby Mills braves returning to her childhood home for the wedding of her best friend Henry Dunn and rich girl Trish Wellington.

Despite Wakefield being long dead, it soon becomes clear that someone has murderous intent towards the wedding party – who have a fair few secrets of their own to grapple with as well.

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Cargo (2017)

Posted on September 10, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard Reply

Director: Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling
Writer: Yolanda Ramke
Main Cast: Martin Freeman, Simone Landers, Anthony Hayes

‘Time is there. Every second. And we are going to make it count.’

In the aftermath of a viral outbreak (the word ‘zombie’ isn’t actually mentioned in the film), a father goes searching in the Australian outbreak for someone who can help him and his baby daughter when he becomes infected, and has 48 hours before the virus takes hold.

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The Funhouse Massacre (2015)

Posted on August 13, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard Reply

Director: Andy Palmer
Writer: Ben Begley
Main Cast: Scottie Thompson, Ben Begley, Jere Burns

‘Dahmer and Bundy and Gacy – they’re just the ones that got all the press. We house the ones that you whisper about around the campfire.’

Six psychopathic killers escape from a secret secure facility, and take over a Horror Funhouse at Halloween. Carnage ensues!

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The Rezort (2015)

Posted on July 2, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard Reply

Director: Steve Barker
Writer: Paul Gerstenberger
Main Cast: Dougray Scott, Jessica De Gouw, Martin McCann

‘If we can treat the dead like meat, who’s to say the living won’t be next?’

In a world that has managed to survive a mass zombie outbreak, a luxury island – The Rezort – offers wealthy guests the opportunity to hunt the last existing zombies for sport. The safari is strictly controlled to ensure guests are in no real danger, until the security systems are brought down by a rogue virus and the hunters once again become the hunted.

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Train to Busan (2016)

Posted on June 25, 2018 by vividcolourshorrorblog Standard 1

Director: Sang-ho Yeon
Writer: Joo-Suk Park, Sang-ho Yeon
Main Cast: Yoo Gong, Su-an Kim, Yu-mi Jung

‘I’ll take you to Mum, no matter what’

A father and his young daughter board a train bound for Busan, unaware that a zombie outbreak is taking hold of the hometown they’re departing. Unfortunately, one of the infected boards the train at the last moment and chaos ensues. The belief that Busan has been secured against the outbreak leads the survivors to fight to reach their destination, at all costs.

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